Wednesday, July 11, 2012

John S. Rees, student 1856-1857

Rees, who was from Claysville in Hampshire County, VA (now WV), enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 13th VA Infantry on July 2, 1861. He was hospitalized in Front Royal, VA on December 29, 1861, where he died on January 18, 1862 of phthisis, or tuberculosis.

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